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Western Australia will open consultation on Wednesday on safety standards for plug-in 'balcony solar' panels and batteries, moving a step closer to becoming the first state to legalise the technology. Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson will announce the plan at a CEDA Energy Outlook lunch, with legislation to follow after the consultation.
A driver who left a cyclist with a fractured skull and bleed on the brain in what prosecutors called a 'violent and unprovoked attack' has been given a two-year supervision order. Joseph Hedley, 39, admitted assaulting Iain Brown to his severe injury, permanent impairment and danger of life at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
A Dundee woman whose flat lost half its value after the discovery of potentially dangerous Raac concrete is calling for financial support for private homeowners, as the city council approved a £21.6m repair scheme for its own properties. Yvette Hoskins sold her flat for £55,000 despite a £100,000 valuation, describing the experience as 'daunting and devastating'.
Scotland's household recycling rate fell to 42.8% in 2025, its lowest level in five years and far short of a 70% target set in a 2010 government roadmap, according to figures from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).
Hundreds of radical youths wreaked havoc in Bilbao on Monday, setting cars and bins on fire, attacking passersby, and clashing with passersby before Basque police arrested around 20 people, many of them minors, according to regional security minister Bingen Zupiria.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Monday that the United States had told Venezuelan officials 'weeks and weeks ago' that opposition leader María Corina Machado should be allowed to return to her country, as the Trump administration sharpens its focus on Venezuela's transition after the arrest of former dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Fears are growing for Iranian athletes facing execution after mountaineer Ali-Sina Mostafavi was hanged on 14 October, the latest in a string of sportspeople killed by the regime. Human Rights for Sport, a group of former Iranian athletes based in Oslo, has warned that at least six more are at risk after their death sentences were upheld by Iran’s supreme court.
The Netherlands has pulled out of the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, reversing a pledge to return, after public broadcaster NPO said it was too early to take part amid sensitivities over Israel's participation. The decision extends a boycott that saw five countries skip this year's contest.
At least four construction workers died and a fifth was injured when a sudden tornado struck a building site in the Kepez district of Antalya, southern Turkey, late Monday. The violent winds overturned two accommodation containers and brought down a tower crane, according to the governor's office.
Greens leader David Shoebridge will use his first address to the National Press Club today to unveil a $22 billion annual tax plan, proposing to lift the tax-free threshold to $26,000 and increase welfare payments, as official inflation data is expected to show prices rose 4.2 per cent over the past year, increasing pressure on the Reserve Bank to lift interest rates next week.
A majority of Utah voters disapprove of President Trump's job performance but still intend to vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted by Morning Consult.
The ABC has formally called on One Nation to remove its satirical cartoons that violently depict the children's character Bluey, as managing director Hugh Marks told Senate estimates the national broadcaster was considering legal action over what he called a 'blatant use of IP'.
A group of 21 major Indian news publishers has challenged the government's privacy law in the Supreme Court, arguing that requiring journalists to seek consent from subjects of their reporting amounts to pre-censorship and could force newsrooms to shut down.
A man has been shot in the leg and struck on the head and arms with iron bars by four masked men who entered a house in County Antrim early on Tuesday.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held a rare 90-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to push for an end to the war in Ukraine, drawing criticism from Denmark and reservations from Sweden over the diplomatic initiative.
As European tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles fail to slow their market share growth, Beijing is quietly building an integrated EV supply chain in Morocco that could eventually bypass those barriers entirely, according to a new analysis by researchers Aaron Glasserman and Jessie Jiexi Lin.
Two British nationals appeared in court on Tuesday charged with national security offences over an incident at RAF Fairford last month, with police saying they believe one man was assisting Iran's intelligence service and the other conducted a reconnaissance mission at the base weeks earlier, according to prosecutors and counter-terrorism officials.
Sales of emergency essentials such as wind-up radios, torches, tinned food and bottled water have surged across the UK after the government's Be Ready campaign urged households to stockpile for potential crises, with some specialist retailers reporting increases of over 600%.
Police in northern Germany are searching for suspects after a BMW was deliberately driven into a group of people in Neustadt am Rübenberge late Monday night, leaving several people injured. Officers fired at the car to stop it, but the suspects fled on foot.
Richard Carroll, a director of Victorian companies VicFlow and VicFlow Civil, faced court on Monday charged with eight counts of corrupt behaviour over alleged bribery of a former Shire of East Pilbara manager. The charges follow a joint investigation by WA Police and the Corruption and Crime Commission, which found Carroll’s companies received more than $5 million in contracts after he allegedly paid over $50,000 in gratuities to Bevan Klein.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has confirmed that UK and EU officials will begin discussions about future options for the relationship, including the possible return of free movement, ahead of the EU summit on 20 November. Reynolds said no assumptions had been made but that the government needed to resolve long-term uncertainties.
The Wallabies are preparing to be without forward Tom Hooper on the spring tour after he re-injured his right shoulder playing for Exeter in the English Premiership, with coach Les Kiss awaiting scan results ahead of the opening Test against England on November 9.
A drone strike on a market in Nyala, Darfur, has killed at least 21 people and wounded 40 others, according to medical sources and residents cited by the AFP news agency.
Essendon and Richmond will play a second Dreamtime match in both 2027 and 2028, taking the fixture to Optus Stadium in Perth while maintaining the traditional match at the MCG, which has been held since 2005.
Authorities in Arunachal Pradesh have called in federal police reinforcements as protests against proposed hydroelectric projects turn increasingly violent, with fresh clashes in Daporijo and continued unrest in Pasighat over concerns of displacement, ecological damage and seismic risk.
At least three people have been killed in India's Andhra Pradesh state as Cyclone Arnab made landfall on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 135 kph before weakening into a deep depression, authorities said.
Kylian Mbappé's public apology for an “ill-judged” comment about Mao Zedong has not ended the fallout in China: fans on Weibo say the apology is “not accepted”, at least three sponsors have cut ties with the Real Madrid striker, and Chinese state television has suspended LaLiga broadcasts.
Syrian social media accounts are circulating videos of a large fire and thick plumes of smoke rising from a weapons depot in Idlib, following a huge explosion reported on 26 October 2026.
Police on Sydney's northern beaches are appealing for information after reports of a man attempting to lure children into his vehicle, with two incidents reported in the past week, just days before Halloween.
Protesters outside King Charles’s first public engagement in the Bahamas called on him to help change Britain’s position on slavery reparations, as his acknowledgement of historic suffering drew criticism from the country’s reparations committee.
Chris Waller says the winner of Saturday's Coolmore Stud Stakes could be worth upwards of $30 million through breeding value, far more than the $10.2 million Melbourne Cup prize, as the champion trainer prepares two runners for the Group 1 sprint at Flemington.
The AFL has abandoned the Opening Round fixture after two seasons, announcing that all 18 clubs will play in a traditional Round One from the 2027 season onwards. Chief Executive Andrew Dillon said the league had listened to feedback over the fixture, which had drawn criticism for creating an uneven playing field by giving early-season byes to the teams that played in it.
Tasmania's auditor-general has found the state's Treasury department often failed to give the treasurer the advice needed to oversee government businesses, describing the oversight framework as "not fit for purpose", even as a companion report showed those businesses cost taxpayers about $584.6 million in 2025-26.
A new report from the Washington-based nonprofit C4ADS has documented extensive Russian assistance to China's military drone programs, including the transfer of design documents, use of Russian wind tunnels for testing, and a surge in joint academic research on autonomous swarm technology, suggesting a deepening of defense industry cooperation that goes beyond previously reported component supplies.
The woman at the centre of allegations against Greens senator Jordon Steele-John has spoken out, expressing dismay that he made intimate details of their relationship public on Instagram. She says she never consented to having her private life aired and rejected the senator's version of events, including his claim that the relationship was never exclusive. The woman has confirmed she will appear before the internal inquiry into Steele-John's conduct.
An analysis by The Independent has found that 80 per cent of donations to Reform UK in the past year have come from overseas donors or companies with controlling directors based abroad. Labour Party chair Bridget Phillipson said the scale of the party's reliance on wealthy overseas backers 'raises further questions about the party's financial affairs.' Reform UK insists it has done nothing illegal, and its own investigation concluded no electoral law was broken.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been confirmed as a co-host of the upcoming season of Junior MasterChef Australia, with the announcement coming as her father Thomas Markle faces accusations of child sexual abuse, which he denies.
DUP assembly member Diane Forsythe has added her voice to calls from MP Carla Lockhart for First Minister Michelle O'Neill to be removed from office, intensifying the political fallout from the Drumcree parading dispute. The move highlights deepening unionist anger and internal DUP tensions over how to respond to the Sinn Féin vice-president's involvement in protests that blocked an Orange Order parade in Portadown.
Marrickville Golf Club initially approached Anthony Albanese’s electorate office for help with its failing septic system, sources familiar with the discussions have told the Sydney Morning Herald, offering a possible explanation for the prime minister’s incorrect description of a $6 million federal grant.
The US military has banned all vehicles manufactured by Chinese company BYD from Kadena airbase on the Japanese island of Okinawa, citing an “unacceptable and unmitigable risk” to personnel and operations. The restriction, which took effect this week, applies to privately owned cars, taxis and delivery vehicles.
Manase Fainu made a surprise appearance at Tonga training on Tuesday while on day release and wearing an ankle monitor, days before he is set to be freed on parole after almost four years behind bars.
Sandringham Dragons forward Arki Butler, one of the most coveted players in next month's AFL draft and a certain top-10 selection, has drawn comparisons to Sydney All-Australian forward Tom Papley for his on-field agitation and skill. With Sydney holding pick No.6 after trading Nick Blakey to North Melbourne, there is a realistic chance the 18-year-old is drafted as Papley's teammate.
Humanitarian convoys reached the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky on Friday for an evacuation under a ceasefire officials said had been extended across the wider Kherson region.
New director Rosemarie Milsom has unveiled the 2027 program for Adelaide Writers' Week, taken on just months after the festival was cancelled this year, with Palestinian-Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed to return in conversation with Moroccan-French novelist Leïla Slimani.
Greg Lynn, the former pilot accused of murdering two campers in Victoria's high country, has been denied bail. The Victorian court dismissed his bail appeal on 27 October 2026, upholding his continued detention while the murder case proceeds.
A 36-year-old Quincy man has been arrested and charged with mailing letters containing white powder to four members of the Illinois congressional delegation, after he allegedly wrote his own name and return address on the envelopes and admitted to federal agents that the substance was salt.
Romanian authorities have accused Russia of orchestrating a sabotage network responsible for a September fire near a state-owned weapons factory, describing it as part of a wider campaign of hybrid attacks aimed at undermining the defence capabilities of nations supporting Ukraine.
Australian students could face national exams in years 6, 10 and 12 under a proposal from a Nationals-backed think tank to overhaul the nation's school assessment system, a plan the federal opposition says warrants serious consideration.